On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Steve Baskauf steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
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- I don't really understand exactly who the TAG is (i.e. specifically, who
are the particular people to whom the RDF TG would be accountable?).
The membership is listed on the Members link at http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tag/, which is generically the place to find the answer to 1. That said, a number(?) of IG's still have huge membership probably with no interest but getting notices of activity of the IG, because until tdwg-content was born, each IG kept its own mailing list. Probably in practice the Core Members of an IG are the ones that would bear the brunt of keeping Task outputs current, or initiating deprecating them as obsolete, hopefully with help from other IG members who have an interest beyond reading notices.
- What precisely is the task whose completion will signal the end of the
life of the Task Group? We have put some benchmarks in the charter, but none of them include the creation of a standard of any of the forms I listed above. Is that OK for a Task Group? I don't know.
Certainly it is OK for TAG. Its Charter at http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tag/charter/ carries the goal: "Develop technical standards and guidelines for how TDWG standards should use underlying technologies in a consistent fashion."
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Bob
Robert A. Morris
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